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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
We handed credit cards to waiters who disappeared into back rooms with them. Store receipts had the entire credit card number printed on them. My online bill pay through my bank is much more secure than the post office.
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I remember that from one trip we made to California when my kids were young. We hit the family attractions in San Diego and Los Angeles with a day trip to Tijuana to see Caliente race track. On the way back, we stopped in San Francisco for the night and had dinner in a restaurant with the waiter taking my credit card into the back to use the zip-zap machine. The next morning we drove from San Francisco to Salem, Oregon where we had dinner at Shari's and spent the night. All was fine and good until a couple of weeks after we got home and I looked at my Visa bill. Hmmm... odd, the same night we had dinner at Shari's and stayed the night in Salem, we have a charge from the San Francisco restaurant for a meal for $8 more than our meal the previous night.
Took about an hour on the phone with Visa to convince them that we did not eat at the restaurant in San Francisco, drive up to Salem (about a 9 hour drive though it took us about 11 hours with a stop for lunch and gas at Weed, plus stopping at lookout points and rest stops, check into a motel and have dinner at Shari's all on the same day. Finally, they agreed and reversed the charge.